By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.